G’day, I’m The Virtual Webmaster and have been an IT professional for more than 40 years, and have spent the past 20 years as a Webmaster, SEO specialist and online entrepreneur.

I was around long before the Big Tech takeover of Silicon Valley.

In fact, I was around long before the internet.

I even predate the release of the first “Personal Computer”.

When it comes to IT, I am ancient.

My first Microcomputer, the term Personal Computer would not be created until 1981 with the release of the IBM PC.

This was one of the ways my brother helped me get into IT. We went havles in buying it and were meant to share it but looking back I think this was his way to help his High School Dropout younger brother into a career.

Now I want to tell you a bit about this computer

And there is a point to this, I am not just reminiscing or providing more evidence about how ancient I am.

This computer had a whopping 4K of memory and came with a monochrome screen. It had no sound and no internal storage. You could not save any work on the computer itself. This is what the cassette recorder was for, and yes this is the same cassette player used for music in the 70s.

How does that compare with the average phone today?

4k of RAM is four thousand bytes

4Mb of RAM is four million bytes

4Gb of RAM is four billion bytes

4Tb of RAM is four Trillion bytes

Technology is evolving exponentially – humanity is not.

Technology has come a long way since then but when it comes to awareness of digital privacy, most people have made very little progress.

WATCHING THE INTERNET EVOLVE

When the internet was available, I was one of the early adopters and since then I have watched it evolve.

In the early days, it was like the Wild West with no regulation and little censorship.

It was an exciting place full of diverse opinions and new ideas and it enabled people from all around the world to discover and connect with other people they would otherwise never have met, and share information.

It promised to bring the world closer together.

But as the internet grew, its potential was recognised and soon attracted Big Money which evolved into Big Tech.

I have watched as Big Tech has crept into almost every aspect of our digital lives.

Instead of bringing the world closer together, Big Tech has made the internet a divisive place full of echo chambers, created by addictive algorithms designed to maximise engagement.

Increasingly there is one official narrative, and any other view is labeled misinformation AKA wrongthink.

The world is changing radically and technology is driving that change.

FUTURE SHOCK IS NOW!

In 1970, Futurologist Alvin Toffler predicted the impact of disruptive new technologies on society.

He described Future shock as “the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.“

This is the guy who invented the term “Information Overload“

He described a world where most people will become obsolete…

Toffler was consulted by many world leaders, they have known what was coming for years…

These emerging disruptive technologies have arrived!

How have our world governments prepared for FUTURE SHOCK?

These technologies are coming together to create the potential for a surveillance state that makes 1984 seem mild by comparison.

Understand that the Technology genie is out of the bottle.

We can try to ignore it, but it will not ignore us.

because there are some that think they have a right to monitor, and ultimately control every aspect of the lives of others.

Those people will eventually want to control us, and as much as we may wish that we “could just wake up, And it not be true, But it is, Oh, it is“

They are not going to leave us alone

We either control our technology, or it will be used to control us

While we have NO control over BigTech technology…

We do have control how we interact with it.

We can also choose alternatives for most of it, and be part of building our own Digital Freedom based technology.

AND for the times when we do need to interact with Big Tech we can limit what Big Tech can see of the rest of the rest of our digital life.

Effectively putting Big Tech into a virtual digital prison on your device.

WE CAN ESCAPE THEIR DIGITAL PRISON AND PUT THEM IN A VIRTUAL DIGITAL PRISON ON OUR DEVICE

HOW?

by simply taking control of our digital lives

Most people don’t even know where to start. The problem is not a lack of privacy information and good alternatives, the problem is information overload.

There is actually too much information out there already and people have no way to filter the good from the bad and then determine what is suitable for their needs.

When it comes to privacy, following the wrong or incomplete advice can be more dangerous than doing nothing, especially if you are lulled into believing you are secure and private when you are not.

For most people, online privacy has been just way too hard!

I knew I had to do something to help people become less dependent on Big Tech and more aware of digital privacy.

I considered making my own how-to type guides for online privacy and Big Tech alternatives, but I knew that at the end of the day, in most cases, I would be reinventing the wheel, and just adding to that information overload.

I understood the obstacles stopping most people but I knew that something even more important was missing.

People need a simple framework and methodology to follow, or to put it in simple English; A way to know how to navigate to the right information, find alternatives best suited to their needs, and then have a process to follow to safely implement them.

A Roadmap to Online Freedom

I could not find anything like that so in late 2022 I started to create that framework and called it A Roadmap to Online Freedom.

I ran eight weeks of live training with a small group recording more than 20 hours of video on how to obtain online privacy and anonymity.

When I started the pilot training I had an outline of the training I wanted to provide but as I progressed I experienced a number of epiphanies.

One of the first was realising that the issue of digital privacy extended way beyond what we consider to be online. The Internet Of Things means that almost everything in our physical environment is being connected to create a surveillance state that has already surpassed 1984 in many ways.

I created 10 Steps to Escape the Digital Prison because also realised that, WE CAN NEVER ACHIEVE PRIVACY WITHOUT FREEDOM. For these reasons, I have started talking about Digital Freedom instead of online privacy

I created A roadmap to Online Freedom because I could not find anything like it and I wondered…why me?

I started to realise that my experience and skill set was unique and this gave me a different perspective on Digital Privacy

It was my experience as a Webmaster and as an SEO specialist that I kept referencing when creating the training.

My role was to analyse the Google algorithm and optimise websites so they would rank higher the in the organic search results.

This included attempting to manipulate the Big Tech algorithms using fake accounts and backlinks generated using an amazing array of specialised tools and services.

It was all about avoiding detection and staying under the radar.

I was also a big user of Google’s advertising services (Adwords & Adsense) and this gave me an insight into the amount of personal data Big Tech are collecting.

We need to change the way we think about privacy.

This means taking control of your digital life
and developing a new level of privacy awareness

As with anything new, such as learning to drive a car, It can seem overwhelming at first, with so many new things to consider and coordinate. But over time with practice and experience, it becomes second nature. The same is true when reclaiming your privacy.

Just as you don’t need to be a mechanic to drive a car…
you don’t need to be a cybersecurity expert or
become a nerd to reclaim your digital privacy

My last and most important realisation was that it’s a lot easier to achieve online privacy now. I discovered that there are more people than ever before working in the background to create the alternative platforms and tools we need for Digital Freedom.

There really is a great alternative for just about everything you could want and for the times when you need to use Big Tech, there is a way to put Big Tech into a virtual digital prison on your device.

10 Step Course Overview

Each step will take you through an area where you can isolate Big Tech from the rest of your digital life.